Bill C-51 removes our right to buy, sell and use natural health products
Do your part to fight Bill C-51
Bill C-51 removes our right to buy, sell and use natural health products freely to protect our own health. What is Bill C-51?
Promoted as a means to protect the safety of Canadians from untested natural health products, Bill C-51 is a wide-reaching, little publicized & carefully crafted set of amendments to the federal Food & Drug Act that threatens Canadians rights to natural health products.
Key changes include:
Replacing the word “drug” with “therapeutic product” throughout the Act, giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, spices, vitamins, supplements & more.
C-51 would require all “therapeutic products” to go through a costly approval process that would be financially impossible for many natural health product manufacturers.
These would then be “forced” unavailable to the public.
Then, only government “approved” natural health products, considered a prescription drug, would be made available to you by prescription only.
How Bill C-51 affects you:
C-51 could result in the outlawing of thousands of beneficial low risk natural health products. It would grant alarming new “enforcement” powers to federal inspectors to “protect” Canadians from “dangerous” unapproved “therapeutic agents”. Products as benign as say, dandelion greens, blueberries, any plant-derived substance, bottled water or Vitamin C could become illegal to possess or distribute.
C-51 would also allow federal enforcement agents to: Raid your home or business without a warrant, seize your bank accounts, levy fines up to $5 million & jail terms up to 2 years for selling or drying herbs in your kitchen, now categorized as “controlled activity”, confiscate your property, then charge you storage fees.
What you can do:
Make your voice heard! Write your MP, the Federal Minister of Health Tony Clement and our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Let them know how you feel about Bill C-51.
Visit our website: http://www.goodnessme.ca for more details on Bill C-51 including:
Lawyer Shawn Buckley’s discussion paper on Bill C-51
Email your MP directly from our site.
Jim M. Wilson
President
CANADIAN LYME DISEASE FOUNDATION
A Federally-registered Charitable Organization
http://www.canlyme.com
PLEASE NOTE:
Nothing contained in this document is to be considered as medical advice.
Please consult your doctor for medical advice.
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